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Work is underway to renovate and rebuild
First White Cloth Hall, one of Leeds’ most
historic buildings.
The project includes constructing a
new modern glazed atrium, which will be
the centrepiece of the building by creating
an open space to highlight the renovated
and retained parts of the structure.
Working on behalf of main contractor
H.H Smith & Sons, BD Structures is
fabricating, supplying and erecting 45t of
steel for the job.
BD Structures Managing Director
Chris Heys said: “Our work involved
a detailed 3D survey of the existing
retained structure from basement
through to roof.
“Certain elements of the listed building
had to be retained and supported,
which involved tying the existing walls
to the new steel frame via brackets on
the steelwork and ties through the new
composite metal deck floor slabs.”
Prior to the redevelopment work, First
White Cloth Hall had been empty and
unused for a number of years. Originally
built in 1711 by merchants eager to entice
traders away from surrounding towns, it
played a key role in establishing Leeds as
a major player in the textile industry.
Modernisation work on the British
Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research
Station has begun its second ‘summer
season’ with the arrival of the project
team that will complete a 74m-long steelframed
replacement wharf.
Over the next couple months, the final
14 of the 20 steel frames that form the
wharf ’s skeleton will be installed and
backfilled with rock. Working on behalf of
main contractor BAM, Hampshire-based
Four-Tees Engineers has fabricated and is
helping to erect the project’s steelwork.
BAS said the new wharf will improve
operational efficiency and ensure that the
Rothera base is fit for the future, as well as
offering a berth for the new research ship
RRS Sir David Attenborough.
The new wharf will include a crane
for easier launching of small science
boats, a personnel gangway and a floating
pontoon for the deployment of scientific
instruments.
A key feature of the overall
modernisation programme is to reduce
fossil fuel consumption at the station and
to introduce more energy efficient systems
including heat recovery generators,
photovoltaic solar panels and enhanced
insulation.
Work has also begun on the
preparations for a new 2,700m2 science
and operations building.
David Seaton, Senior Infrastructure
Programme Manager at BAS said: “After
many months of planning we are looking
forward to achieving two key milestones
at Rothera. These two projects; the wharf
and modernisation are critical to reducing
operating costs, improving efficiency and
to keep the research station meeting the
needs of BAS personnel to facilitate worldleading
research for the future”.
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ArcelorMittal Long Products
has updated its sales
programme to take account
of the recent updates to
EN10025:2019 parts 2 to 6. This
includes the inclusion of higher
grades such as S500M and rolled
sections in weathering steel to
S460W. A pdf and Excel copy
of the Sections and Merchant
Bar Sales Programme can be
downloaded at: https://sections.
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Caunton Engineering is
erecting two large distribution
warehouses for Winvic
Construction at the Gateway
development in Peterborough.
Forming part of the 240-acre
site, the two buildings are on
Plot 210 and Plot 410, and
will require nearly 2,000t of
structural steelwork.
Kier has been appointed by
Kirklees Council to deliver
a £15M leisure centre in
Liversedge, West Yorkshire.
Known as the Spen Valley
Leisure Centre, it will be built
on the site of the original
Spenborough Pool and will
include a two-storey, two-pool
complex. It will have a doubleheight
foyer, which will lead to
wet changing areas as well as
multi-activity space.
Developer St. Modwen has
secured a resolution to grant
outline planning permission
from Derby City Council for a
70-acre site on Wyvern Way,
adjacent to Derby County FC’s
Pride Park, after submitting a
revised proposal in conjunction
with landowners Network Rail.
The £80M scheme, formerly
known as Derby Triangle, will
consist of up to 60,000m2 of
industrial and logistics space.
Designs for a new office
development on Newcastle city
centre’s Quayside have been
unveiled. The 12-storey No. 1
Quayside will offer 9,900m2
of office space to a previously
disused site – potentially
creating 1,000 jobs. The
development, which has been
designed by Danish-based
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), will
include a living green roof with
a rooftop terrace.
Installation begins for final steel
sections of Antarctic wharf
Steel restores historic Leeds landmark
Containing 1,452 spaces, a new steelframed
multi-storey car park is due to
open at Liverpool’s Kings Dock later this
summer, replacing a concrete-framed
structure that suffered irreparable fire
damage on New Year’s Eve 2017.
Constructed on an adjacent plot to
the older structure, the new car park is
150m-long × 33m-wide, and including
ground floor and roof, it has eight levels.
The steel-framed structure is based
around a standardised column grid pattern
of 7.5m along its perimeter, with one line
of internal columns giving the car park two
spans of 16m-long. The steel beams support
metal decking and a 160mm-thick concrete
topping to form the composite floors.
The damaged, and consequently
unusable, car park left a large hole in the
city’s car parking availability and Liverpool
City Council wanted a replacement to be
built as quickly as possible as the car park
will not only serve the nearby Liverpool
Arena and the waterfront, but also the
wider city centre.
The design team decided that steelwork
offered the fastest programme for the
project.
LeachRhodesWalker Architects
Managing Director Christian Gilham said:
“This is an engineering structure and so
it was important to have the steelwork as
a feature, which can be glimpsed through
punched holes in the aluminium cladding.
“With reference to Liverpool’s maritime
heritage, the cladding is also adorned
with Schooner motifs, while other areas
of the structure are clad with red/brown
brickwork, which is a further nod to the
city’s industrial past and the area’s surviving
warehouses.”
Working on behalf of main contractor
Willmott Dixon, Leach Structural Steelwork
has fabricated, supplied and erected the car
park’s steelwork.
Liverpool replacement car park
on course for summer opening
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